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Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
- Thread starter LordRoustabout
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The problem is when it's gifted or something that you bought in a rush, only to attempt to put something in a pocket that turns out to be, in fact, not a pocket but rather a false seam that provides the illusion of one.
Jordisk
<Unverified N00B>
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- Blind Eternities
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- He/Him/His
They know what Karma is. It is the medical division that gives them new bodies when they break theirs.
Qoheleth
Archivist
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- Any
Putting aside all the big Topics of this update...
I get why she's excited, but I also get why our protagonist is hesitant. Tetra's already practically radiating violant. Unbreakable connections? Blood shed in the heavens? She'd take to it like fire to sticks.
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So I'm fully ready to be wrong since it's literally been 20 years since I read this book. But I could have sworn that they only really traded bodies, they didn't manufacture them. So in order for the gods to get young beautiful bodies, some naturally young beautiful person had to give the body up, either downgrading to something else or dying...
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- Canada
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- He/Him
See, this is a much more informative answer than what I've received thus far! I'm fine with this outcome - it'd probably be even better for Riley to be displaced in time a bit. Up until now, people were implying he'd just kill her. Ty.
No, WoG for Boston at least is Joe Prime will head there which is why it mattered he got social skills from Star Trek.
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- US
It's been a hot minute since I reread Worm so this is mostly based on a little bit of wiki work and a quick skim of Bonesaws POV interlude, but Crawler shows up with the S9 to Brockton Bay and then just sort of dies unimportantly. Whereas Bonesaw continues to do things and just gets infinite more screen time than him for readers to attach to her. In addition to that, she even has her own POV interlude that has moments like
A thought she's having right before doing invasive surgery on herself without doing anything to dull the pain of it. Which really primes the mental pump for imagining how she could have a real redemption arc.Worm Interlude 25 said:
Edit: Shower thought from directly after posting this, in many ways wouldn't Mannequin be the actual person to redeem from the S9? How culpable is he actually as a Simurgh victim?
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Nah, more than sure they are capable of artificially producing bodies - plus a little bit less sure, but still pretty sure that Nirriti's undead army was also fully composed of those artificially produced bodies.
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- Earth
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- He/Him
It's meant to be Joe himself because of the sectional time giving people inside the workshop so much extra time as long as Joe is out of it the new perk was just a very big deal and meant he had to be in the workshop to optimally use the ability.
So firstly I said weakest not weak the weakest and easiest to counter endbringer is still a pretty big deal just as say the weakest Z fighter, Naruto kage or Bleach captain is. Levi is also definitely the weakest and easiest to counter because as covered it just has normal physical atks with it's body and it's water abilities so countering water such as via the control swords or something like a game accessory that makes you immune to or heal from water atks drastically reduces it's threat. Heck it's the only one Ziz deemed too weak and upgraded for the scion fight.
Compare that to the others. Behemoth controls energy which means it's common atks are earthquakes, lightning, fire, redirected kinetic energy and radiation on top of it's kill aura and just being bigger and stronger there's a reason it's brute 10 and levi is brute 9 after all. Ziz flies, has tk, it's precog, postcog, Ziz bombs, the scream that scans the area to build up info for better modelling and copies all the thinker and tinker powers of any capes near it. The one's unleashed after Behemoth's death all have energy fields similar to Vicky's between their layers so no atk can destroy more than 1 layer. Khonsu again flies, is able to create circular zones which only Legend in light form has been able to escape from where time is greatly sped up that can also be used to speed up it's own regeneration and is capable of worldwide teleportation. The twins have it so one of them is able to copy and use up to 3 parahuman powers at once including dead ones including doing things like Eidolon to get even more powers and the other is the giant tower that turns the area around it into a maze of death traps.
You've also hit on what I mean by fics making endbringers especially levi stronger it can't just pop people or enter power up modes or make water shells or echo clones all of that's fanon. Wildbow has wog that the endbringers sandbagging is not them hiding abilities and powers it's sub optimal use of what they have and giving obvious tells for them. In Levi's case it doesn't need to go physically fight at all and could just hang out underwater off the coast and send in the tidal waves.
Shadow Archon
Protoss Preserver
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- Louisiana
That sounds more like Mutineer's Moon. Technology could keep the Brain going forever, but they couldn't prolong bodies more than a few centuries, so they took people in cryo, removed and threw away their brains, and body jacked them.
They pretended to be gods too, so that's the similarity
lancelot
Completely worth it
As of now it has become officially impossible for Joe not to understand that Dragon is an AI, and not someone hiding behind an AI. That have that level of power and understanding, even if it's only a fraction what would it could be would be so stupid there aren't any words for it. Of course Tetra would know the moment she physically sees Dragon, or the Dragon Slayers thanks to her own powers. But it's nice to know at least one problem now has a simple solution instead of being dragged out for months because of Joe's ignorance, and to a lesser extent his passivity.
I wonder, could he attribute the mental state he needs for the aspect, especially while aspected? Because that would make this a very broken power indeed.
Also, if the clones got an aspect, it could be productivity. As in, making progress and achieving results within a limited timeframe.
Also, if the clones got an aspect, it could be productivity. As in, making progress and achieving results within a limited timeframe.
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Because he wants to die. He kills people because it makes others want to kill him which is his one desire. Some people have theorised that he triggered during a suicide attempt and has been trying to finish the job ever since.
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- Brazil, Minas gerais
Well I glad for the chapter, for the text that help understand how the perk hit him so hard that he had to re-center himself back in the lab even if cost the OP super computer ?eleven hours per second? (I forget if Joe being outside the lab is a 2x or more) so it had to be significant.
And it was, now Joe has a reality law lvl of certainly to something that will forever guide him forward. Every time he is with doubt with his family, with his actions, and so on. He can look within.
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Also, man the shards are getting more and more screwed each chapter. Now even the nastier form of 'communication' + 'go away' can be tanked by the ships? yeah they will think this is some sort of research by one of them (while continue to get that data).
Self actualization of this scale will be such a curved ball to everyone else.
And it was, now Joe has a reality law lvl of certainly to something that will forever guide him forward. Every time he is with doubt with his family, with his actions, and so on. He can look within.
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Also, man the shards are getting more and more screwed each chapter. Now even the nastier form of 'communication' + 'go away' can be tanked by the ships? yeah they will think this is some sort of research by one of them (while continue to get that data).
Self actualization of this scale will be such a curved ball to everyone else.
Yes, it looks like Joe's Aspect is finally a power that he could use to resolve his family situation without crossing his anti-Master lines. Not so much because of the direct applications of his Aspect, but because of the no-bullshit no-denial aura that any Aspect radiates. If he ever raises his Aspect in their presence, his sisters will never again be able to think of him as the hapless, incompetent brother.
Oh, and it wouldn't even out him as Apeiron, because it's distinctive and not present when he's Apeiron.
Oh, and it wouldn't even out him as Apeiron, because it's distinctive and not present when he's Apeiron.
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Amazing update!
And millions of Women cried in relief.
Oops, I think Celestial Forge team lost their sense of time.
And millions of Women cried in relief.
Oops, I think Celestial Forge team lost their sense of time.
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- Illinois
In my opinion? Closure.
Remember that Joe is, ostensibly, the character from Sabah's interlude that partially contributed to her trigger. The fact that this story is about Joe meant that Sabah had to show up at some point so that this issue could be resolved/closed. I mean, yeah, Joe's getting help, but if there was no closing the issue, he'd be working on it forever. (Which is a considerably long(er) time now.)
Now he's made his apologies, and can bow out of it, moving on to more important things without the virtual Sword of Damocles continuing to hang over his head.
Shadow Archon
Protoss Preserver
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- Louisiana
If this exposition chapter was unique or rare then it would be an interesting chapter that develops the story, the world and the MC and his powers, but it isn't. This kinda of power explanation has been done in this fic like a thousand times and that makes it boring and repetitive.
The only scheduled evens are coffee with Laserdream, Gully meeting with Garment and I think therapy for the next day. Unscheduled events include Lost Garden going after ABB finance people, presumably more conflicts with the teeth, and ABB remnant trying dumb BS to try to boost their powers.
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Except, that's the entire point of the story, showing power interactions and how they effect the setting.